Congratulations to Putin then, because after
- several months of fighting
- tens of thousands of Russians dead,
- a massive chunk of talented, educated western Russian people getting as far away from Russia as possible
- mobilising the skilled workforces only to throw them into a meat grinder
- convincing hundreds of thousands of once pro-Russian Ukrainians that Russia is their enemy
- empowering two private armies (Kadyrov’s and Prighozin’s) to lord it over the Russian official armed forces
- pissing off the entire CSTO by robbing its talent to fuel the meat grinder
- bending over for a Xi cornholing this week, effectively pledging to be China’s gas station in return for... nothing much
He gets to claim victory over a small town after pulverising it to rubble for months.
Vladimir, you have won - tens of thousands of square miles of minefields, several thousand completely abandoned and razed villages and towns, a couple of cities also flattened into rubble, enough corpses to fill an olympic stadium, and a reconstruction bill so big that to do anything useful with the land you just “won”, Russia would be on the verge of bankruptcy.
Putin isn’t just mad, he’s utterly, utterly retarded.
As is anyone who thinks finally being able to control those two signs, after the stagggering cost Russia has incurred on kit, cadavers and international condemnation to win them, and thinks Russia “won” anything worth fighting for.
You’re doing just what I said y’all would do
In the end
I would bet my few remaining years on it
Putin could be lounging in Whitehall as y’all fear
You’d still claim he lost
This is a freeper personality parade